The final 2-day NERC sponsored workshop run in the School of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Glasgow is on Functional Data Analysis (FDA) for environmental science on 17th and 18th March. The course tutors are Dr Surajit Ray and Professor Marian Scott. Registration details can be found at http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/mathematicsstatistics/events/details/?id=9182
This workshop is designed introduce the power of functional data analysis methods to environmental scientists. It is intended for postgraduate students, early career researchers but also for others for whom FDA is new but who are keen to learn about how it can be used in environmental sciences.
The workshop will consist of lectures, practical and question and answer session, examples will be drawn from current research of the course tutors but also more generally from the literature. This will include sea surface temperature, chlorophyll and nitrates in rivers, and identifying seasonal patterns in vegetation maps. Workshop participants will:
* Develop new modeling and computing skills through hands-on analyses and lectures - all the analysis will be done in R using the fda package
* Have an opportunity to ask questions and explore how FDA might be useful in their own research
FDA often is used in the analysis of time series data, where the observation is considered to be the entire time series, which can then be represented by a smooth curve representing the underlying environmental process. For the application of FDA, measurements do not need to be made at regularly spaced intervals, and we will typically have many time series.
This workshop follows naturally from the previous two workshops on Advanced regression and spatio-temporal modelling, but no prior knowledge of FDA is assumed. Participants are expected to have attended the previous 1 week training course on statistical methods, or to have equivalent statistical and R knowledge.
Resources: J. O. Ramsay, G. Hooker, and S. Graves, Functional Data Analysis with R and MATLAB. Springer, 2009
Registration should be completed by March 4th. NERC financial support is available for travel and subsistence for NERC sponsored PhD and ECR participants.
E Marian Scott OBE, FRSE, CStat, PhD
Professor of Environmental Statistics
School of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Glasgow
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Glasgow G12 8QW
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